Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 2 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 3 | Barr and Barnes are among an increasing number who favour vouchers or bursaries topped up by loans . |
| 4 | There can be a tendency for such firms to collect details of all cash or cheques received from clients on the one hand , and all cash or cheques paid out for labour , materials , plant or services on the other , and pass the entire batch to the accountant at half-yearly or yearly intervals . |
| 5 | With ponds dug on the line , or streams banked up into ‘ flashes ’ to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day . |
| 6 | Double.length shifts are usually provided , where bits shifted out of one register of the double.length accumulator are shifted into the other . |
| 7 | It is important when collecting soil to avoid getting any old leaves or weeds mixed in with it , as these will only decompose and foul the water . |
| 8 | Normally , individual officers or employees singled out by the criticism will additionally have an action : in Lewis v Daily Telegraph , for example , both the company and its managing director were plaintiffs . |
| 9 | In pre-European times , surfing was practised from Easter Island to New Guinea , in Micronesia and Melanesia , although it was only in Hawaii and Tahiti , whence the Hawaiians had come , that riders stood up on their boards . |
| 10 | French forestry officials argue that only 100,000 cubic metres of timber are felled each year , but agree that roads opened up by loggers should be closed to the public . |
| 11 | The northern section of the colony was settled by people from Virginia rather than emigrants brought out by the proprietors , and the southern section by emigrants from Barbados as well as from England . |
| 12 | Front-line troops were being used up quicker than units pulled out into reserve could recover ; moreover , they were demoralised by what had happened inside Douaumont . |
| 13 | Although gamsabhavas died out after the imposition of British rule , headmen and other intermediaries often negotiated compromises . |
| 14 | Some of the working- and lower-middle-class people who made up the bulk of the urban populace had relatives in the villages , but transport to and from the countryside was erratic and there was always the danger that food-parcels sent in from the villages would be intercepted and confiscated . |
| 15 | Dr Piperno studies phytoliths — small pieces of silica that plants lay down in their tissues to discourage animals that might want to eat them . |
| 16 | Until the 1860s or 1870s the natural increase in the local population was sufficient to fill the vacancies in the pits , but then the sinking of deep mines to work the Silkstone and Barnsley seams on a vast new scale increased the demand for labour to such an extent that immigrants poured in from Staffordshire , Lancashire , Cheshire , other parts of Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 17 | The pay that partners took out of their firms rose likewise , to £60,000–300,000 . |
| 18 | The American Association of Museums reported that gifts fell off by more than 60% in both number and value . |
| 19 | So successful was he in this that offers flowed in from publishers and editors on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 20 | He was concerned that residents missed out on last year 's winter warming cash because they came under the Whitby weather station where temperatures are warmer than in Boosbeck , Lingdale , Stanghow and Moorsholm villages . |
| 21 | A pheasant squawked and birds burst out of the trees . |
| 22 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 23 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 24 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 25 | A classical ballet has a style of dance based on certain accepted principles and rules laid down by french , Russian , Danish , Italian and more recent schools . |
| 26 | In every Legion Regiment , the English-speaking people stuck together in tight groups , drinking together , socialising together and looking after each other ; Australians , South Africans and Canadians joined in with the club , which evolved its own codes of conduct and unspoken rules of behaviour . |
| 27 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 28 | This ‘ Winnie the War Winner ’ was made from two 109-sets , parts from the plantation manager 's receiver collected by Bill Baldwin , and bits and bobs laid out in a contraption of wires and valves around a room 10 feet square ( 3m² ; ) . |
| 29 | But coaching and plans went out of the window . |
| 30 | They are not necessarily the cheapest but can sometimes offer a package deal supplying all requirements from a single source with own stock and products bought in for the purpose . |